Use

You can use the following functions to create, change and display activity types :

Features

The following graphic depicts the functions available for processing activity types:

Changing Master Data of Activity Types

You generally make changes to the master data of activity types either at the beginning or at the end of the fiscal year. This is to ensure that the data remains consist.

Cost center category

If you change the cost center category , be careful to avoid inconsistencies with information stored in the cost center master data.

Default values for allocations

You can store the following indicators as default values within the master data of the activity types:

If you are planning for the first time, you can overwrite the default value.

You can also store a default value for allocable activity type categories (activity type categories 1, 2 or 3). Within planning, you can change this default value to a different allocable activity type category or allocation category.

You may only change non-allocable activity type category 4 to an allocable activity type category (or the other way round), if no dependent data exists.

Activity type category

You can only change the activity type category in the master data of the activity type at fiscal-year level.

Changes between activity type categories 1, 2, 3, and 5 are possible even if you have already planned using the given activity type. This is because they are only default values.

You can only make changes in activity category 4, or from activity type category 4 to a different category, if you have not yet posted in the plan or actual of the fiscal year using the given activity type.

For actual allocations, you can enter an activity type category different from the category in the plan. If you do not enter an activity type category for actual allocation, the SAP System uses the same activity type category for both actual and plan (see: Activity Type Category )

Cost element for the activity allocation

The allocation cost element can only be changed in the master data of the activity type at fiscal-year level.

You should only change the allocation cost element if you no longer require it. If you must debit an activity type using a different allocation cost element, you can change the allocation cost element when you plan the activity type on the cost center.

Price indicator

You can only change the price indicator in the master data of the activity type at fiscal-year level.

For actual allocations, you can enter a price indicator different from that in the plan. If you do not enter a price indicator for the actual allocation, the SAP System uses the same price indicator in the actual and planning data (see: Price Indicator ).

Average Price

The Average price indicator specifies whether prices of cost centers/activity types remain constant for the whole fiscal year. You can only change the indicator in the activity type master data at fiscal year level.

Predistributed Fixed Costs

The Predistributed fixed costs indicator determines whether the fixed costs (incurred for providing an activity) are to be predistributed to the cost centers that received the activity. You can only change the indicator in the activity type master data at fiscal year level (see: Activity Type Planning , and Predistribution of Fixed Costs ).

Set Actual Quantity

The Manual actual quantity indicator determines whether a manual quantity can be posted as well as the allocated activity quantity that credits the cost center. The manual posting is particularly useful if the allocated activity quantity is determined inversely, but the actual quantity on the sender is known.

Set Plan Quantity

If this indicator has been set, then the planned activity quantity not changed by the plan reconciliation - even if planning for the object is not to be reconciled.

See also:

Creating, Changing and Displaying Master Data

Deleting Master data